3D Modeling Critical for Maze of Pipes and Tanks at a Paint Factory Addition

Award of Merit, Industrial/Manufacturing: Dunn-Edwards Paint Manufacturing Plant

Photo courtesy of Layton Construction Co. Inc.

Dunn-Edwards Paint Manufacturing Plant

This LEED-Gold project added two separate mezzanines to an existing 300,000-sq-ft building, plus an addition for the bulk storage of raw materials for manufacturing. The project also included a retail area, corporate training and board rooms, offices and a lab. BIM was used to lay out more than 100 tanks—some of which are suspended from the mezzanines—and 2,500 automatic valves with connective piping that route materials all the way from new rail spur and truck off-loading stations to the fill lines where the finished product is dispersed into paint cans. Newly purchased equipment had to be coordinated with equipment relocated from existing facilities.

Submitted by: Layton Construction Co. Inc.

Key Players

Owner: Dunn-Edwards Paint, Los Angeles

Contractor: Layton Construction Co. Inc., Sandy, Utah

Lead Design: Deutsch Architecture Group, Phoenix

Engineers: Caruso Turley Scott Inc., Tempe, Ariz.; Piping Systems Engineering, Mesa, Ariz.

Subcontractors: Comfort Systems Southwest, Chandler, Ariz.; Metal-Weld Specialties, Peoria, Ariz.; Suntec Concrete, Phoenix

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